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Archaeologists Engage
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An international independent non-profit group of archaeologists who enable community engagement and outreach.
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Archaeologists Engage @archsengage.bsky.social · Oct 7
Delighted to share our publication in British Archaeology magazine covering our Dig the Castle project (Great Torrington, Devon, UK).

Get your copy now - issue 205, December 2025.
#archaeology #greattorrington #community #publicengagement #devon
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isisnaucratis.bsky.social
🚨The @college-de-france.fr just canceled a conference on Palestinien history organized by one of its faculty.
Absolute shame on them for caving in to Zionist bullies and, thereby, betraying the values of academic freedom they claim to uphold 1/
mathildepanot.bsky.social Mathilde Panot @mathildepanot.bsky.social · 7d
⚡️📄 Lettre au Collège de France suite à la censure de l’événement « La Palestine et l’Europe ».
Nous proposons d’accueillir ce colloque dans l’enceinte de l’Assemblée nationale et de le placer ainsi sous le patronnage de la représentation nationale.
November 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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cjfrieman.bsky.social
attn heritage and contemporary arch folks
November 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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students asking the pressing questions after last week’s discussion of manosphere discourse and attention
is being straight gay
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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csmfht.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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augustaquarius.bsky.social
Call for Papers: Sonic Cartographies: Mapping Music and Sound in Theme Parks

18–20 June 2026
Royal Holloway University of London

Abstract Deadline: January 9, 2026.

themeparkmusicandsound.org
Theme Park Music and Sound Conference
Conference on Music and Sound in Theme Parks
themeparkmusicandsound.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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rcpsgheritage.bsky.social
Marie Curie was born #OnThisDay 1867.

Madame Curie visited Glasgow in 1929, being hosted by Professor Archibald Young and Mrs Anna Young.

Here is a photo of Irene Curie, Madame Curie, and Mrs Young enjoying the fresh Scottish air at Loch Fyne 😅

#heritage #mariecurie
Black and white photo showing three women standing in front of a rock face. The women are wrapped up in big coats and don't look particularly thrilled to be out in the fresh Scottish air!
November 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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barahuber.bsky.social
Really nice coverage on our research on ancient scents by @sciam.bsky.social and @gayoung.bsky.social
🏺🧪👩‍🔬

www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
History Smelled. Here’s How We’re Sniffing It Out
How can reconstructing long-lost smells of ancient artifacts help us connect with the past?
www.scientificamerican.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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irishashyt.bsky.social
Our community archaeology project just got featured by the Heritage Alliance! 🤩 beaming with joy!

Have a read to see how heritage catalyses econmic regeneration and revitalises placemaking 🩷

www.theheritagealliance.org.uk/blog/dig-the...

@archsengage.bsky.social #archaeology #publicengagement
Dig the Castle, Devon: One Town’s Story of Archaeology, Community and a Norman Motte and Bailey Castle Rising from the Ashes of Anonymity - The Heritage Alliance
A Placemaking Case Study Submitted by Dig the Castle Dig the Castle is undertaken by and for the people of Great Torrington in collaboration with community interest groups and the non-profit Archaeolo...
www.theheritagealliance.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
archsengage.bsky.social
This new take on object agency is groundbreaking and beautiful! The lines between art and artefacts are conceptual at best, so seeing this meld gives us room to consider artefacts in a new way.

Just love it. #archaeology #heritage
November 6, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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animalarchaeology.com
🏺🧪 My most recent #BadZooarch post is from last year, where I finally sat down and tried to figure out why the hell people seem to love these horribly inaccurate and downright bad to look at animal skeleton decorations to begin with.

animalarchaeology.com/2024/10/25/w...
Why Do We Love (Plastic, Inaccurate) Skeletons So Much? A Halloween Investigation
This blog post is part of the first ever Real Archaeology festival! Myself, along with several other archaeology-focused content creators, have come together to celebrate real, factual (not pseudos…
animalarchaeology.com
September 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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europeana.bsky.social
📣 Funding opportunity 📣

Are you a professional or researcher working with #3D cultural heritage? Apply now for the #3DBigDataSpace Outreach Synergy Call, which focuses on on transforming 3D heritage data into public-facing outreach experiences.

Get the full details & apply ➡️ bit.ly/3LrE8xP
Apply for the 3DBigDataSpace Outreach Synergy Call: opening 3D cultural heritage to the public | Europeana PRO
Are you a professional or researcher working with 3D cultural heritage? Then apply for funding for a new Outreach Synergy Call, launched under the 3DBigDataS…
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November 4, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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walkietalkieguides.bsky.social
Museums designed for quiet contemplation now also have to accommodate phones and selfies. Not saying it's bad - just different. The question is how to adapt without losing what makes these spaces special. The challenge is to design an experience where the phone is included, but doesn't take over.
November 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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delaneyking.bsky.social
I am pretty sure that moments after this picture was taken, The British Museum stole it.
The Danish Foreign Minister gifted the Egyptian Foreign Minister a Pyramid LEGO set. He is smiling with joy.
November 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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owenthesignal.bsky.social
‘Which fonts do you want for the sale poster?’

‘Yes’

#fonts #typography #museum #allthefonts
@fontsinuse.com @themerl.bsky.social
All the fonts, including a surprisingly modern 1960s style italic font, advertising the sale of Ashton Farm by auction at the Crown Hotel Bishops Waltham in 1908. Photo from Bishops Waltham Museum, from the Austin & Wyatt archive
October 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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irishashyt.bsky.social
🧵 This is what I’ve been using my annual leave for recently, travelling to Devon to explore the rich archaeological heritage of Great Torrington.

I volunteer with Dig the Castle, a project started by Dig Director Emily Wapshott MCIfA.
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October 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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romanpalace.bsky.social
There's a lot going on here. Not least the cameo appearance of Captain Blackadder.
October 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
archsengage.bsky.social
It’s always fun to make archaeological excavations as tangible as possible, including for those who can only connect digitally. We created these 3D interactive images with phone lidar/photogrammetry

Trench 2
m.3dScannerApp.com/m?id=r2kfLky

Trench 3
m.3dScannerApp.com/m?id=9fkKAN
October 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
archsengage.bsky.social
Delighted to share our publication in British Archaeology magazine covering our Dig the Castle project (Great Torrington, Devon, UK).

Get your copy now - issue 205, December 2025.
#archaeology #greattorrington #community #publicengagement #devon
British archaeology magazine cover with picture of corroded metal artefacts and text the massive melsonby hoard British archaeology magazine cover with picture of aerial view of green and community washing artefacts with text archaeology active and we dug the castle British archaeology magazine cover with pictures of geophysics and smiling team photo and childs drawing of castle
October 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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gamingthepast.bsky.social
Hi historical game interested folks!
Saw abstract for research article -- it suggested affective engagement w/ historical content increased using particular games vs a text but knowledge test scores better w/ text.
Okay let's shift from article i've-not-read to that principle 1/ 🧵
🗃 #AncientBluesky
October 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
archsengage.bsky.social
Our Dig the Castle project open day featured rain, hail, winds and smiling faces!

We installed the new public information boards that tell the story of geophysical surveys and recreate what the ancient structures looked like on the site...
🩷🪏🏰
Three adults stand by an information panel Three standing adults and one seated, two wear medieval garb One adult stands with a sword raised and she is smiling Two adults stand and smile to camera
October 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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archaeologyuk.bsky.social
We are thrilled to reveal the shortlist for the #ArchaeologicalAchievementAwards 2025. 🎉

Every shortlisted project demonstrates how archaeology connects people and places, and how it can spark fresh ideas about our shared past and future.

Congratulations to all shortlisted! 👉 shorturl.at/DbaPk
October 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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sarsf.bsky.social
The application portal for the School for Advanced Research's 2026-27 Residential Fellowships is now open for scholars writing a dissertation or book. Deadline is the beginning of November: sarweb.org/scholars/res...
Resident Scholars - School for Advanced Research
sarweb.org
September 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
archsengage.bsky.social
Autumn digging at Great Torrington continues. Thanks to Dr Alex Birkett in the Dept of Anth & Archaeology @bristoluni for the loan of equipment, it ensures we can precisely measure everything with the GIS machine.
#northdevon #archaeology #torrington #greattorrington #history
October 3, 2025 at 7:43 AM
archsengage.bsky.social
Stopped to pick up team-mates before the project continues tomorrow. Can you guess where I am?
Rectangular sign with three otters holding signs to the left barnstable and to the right exeter with direction of travel written above
October 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM